Finally reaching the port city of Eleder, the adventurers arrive with knowledge of the route to the lost city of Saventh-Yhi. But new rivals are also on the trail of the legendary metropolis, and soon the race is on to reach the fabled ruin and claim its unimaginable treasures. Will the adventurers ally with ambitious explorers like the treasure-seeking Pathfinder Society, the unscrupulous Aspis Consortium, the gold-hungry Shackles Pirates, or others on their quest into the jungle's depths? And what dangers will they face as they enter the Screaming Jungle, one of the deadliest wildernesses on all of Golarion?

This volume of Pathfinder Adventure Path includes:

"Racing to Ruin," a Pathfinder RPG adventure for 4th-level characters, by Tim Hitchcock.

A tour of the exotic and tumultuous port city of Eleder,
by Tim Hitchcock.

A look into the calm and calamity of Gozreh, unpredictable god of nature, by Sean K Reynolds.

Bar brawls and noble quests in the Pathfinder's Journal, by Robin Laws.

Pathfinder Adventure Path is Paizo Publishing's monthly 96-page, perfect-bound, full-color softcover book printed on high-quality paper. It contains an in-depth Adventure Path scenario, stats for about a half-dozen new monsters, and several support articles meant to give Game Masters additional material to expand their campaign. Pathfinder Adventure Path volumes use the Open Game License and work with both the Pathfinder RPG and the standard 3.5 fantasy RPG rules set.

I love the old Land of Men with Tails modules from Dungeon, and hope we get all kinds of jungle fun.

That said, I must repeat a request I've made elsewhere before: Please, not another Heart of Darkness remake! After so many over the years, a remake of one of Bob Hope's Road to &SOMEWHERE would be preferable. If you need some real world inspiration, how about those Maya ruins United Fruit restored in between shuffling banana regimes? For inspirational reading set in jungle terrain, how about, say Call it Courage? Haiti's been in the news lately, how about some voodoo legends I've not heard of yet? Punch, National Geographic, Harper's, and The Atlantic are all really old; maybe they have some actual exploration accounts from 1870-1890. Just, please, something, anything, other than Joe Conrad again.

I take it that this overland journey is less likely to be up the Vanji to Whitebridge station, Nantambu, or Nightfall station, and thence overland, and more likely to be something like Eleder-Kalabuto-River of Lost Tears-Trail of Burstead Souls-Ocota River. Or is the eventual destination actually in the Screaming Jungle?

The PDF is not relased for sale until the street date, but subscibers (as I notice you are) get access to their free ones when the book is posted, which should be earlier.

Actually, the product schedule page estimates indicate when we expect to have completed shipping from our warehouse; retail release dates are generally set 2–3 weeks later. So subscribers should get the PDF when their print copy ships in mid-September, but the retail release date—and the date on which non-subscribers can purchase PDFs—is currently estimated for late September/early October.

The PDF is not relased for sale until the street date, but subscibers (as I notice you are) get access to their free ones when the book is posted, which should be earlier.

Actually, the product schedule page estimates indicate when we expect to have completed shipping from our warehouse; retail release dates are generally set 2–3 weeks later. So subscribers should get the PDF when their print copy ships in mid-September, but the retail release date—and the date on which non-subscribers can purchase PDFs—is currently estimated for late September/early October.

Looks very interesting so far, need to give it another once over but getting a very strong Isle of Dread/Forbidden City/Raiders vibe - just wish Part 3 was larger.
Might poach some Forbidden City/Isle encounter to add, but it looks pretty good.

Edit:Damn, I think this is the first time I got a DL on the first day of release!

Is there some reason page 25 of the PDF (page number 23 of the book, but p. 25 factoring in the covers) is so slow to render? I mean, it will eventually display but both Acrobat Reader and PDF-XChange Viewer take almost a minute to completely render the page, but all of the others just pop up just as fast as normal.

Uh...no,...I had to wait eight days after the first release of the APG before I had access to my pdfs and I'm a subscriber.

This was the first time I got my pdf on the initial release day or was first to post on a product which was released.
On average my time to get access to my downloads is around 5 days after the first subscriber gets access to their pdfs.

Reading it, digging it, in awe of those epic dreads sported within the book(you know the ones I mean).

I've don't recall ever seeing a "rail" laid out quite like this one, but it really makes perfect sense as far as usability for a trek-based module. Wonder if we might see this formula pop up again(heck, if Jade Regent involves crossing the Crown of the World...)

Spoiler:

I wonder if the "race" nature of the adventure might lead to groups going "not our problem" to a number of encounters that could be seen as delays. Might just come back to bite them during the endgame.

I have a similar issue with my copy. I sent the following to CS the other day:

Quote:

Just received my copy of the above and was bummed to see that the slug for pages 33-48 is inverted, the color registration marks are visible, and hence, that truncates the "top" of the page (which is at the bottom). Looked at the PDFs in my downloads, and they appear to be ok.

After that set of pages, things are ok again. I _think_ everything is there, but haven't done a 1:1 check with the PDF.

I have a similar issue with my copy. I sent the following to CS the other day:

Quote:

Just received my copy of the above and was bummed to see that the slug for pages 33-48 is inverted, the color registration marks are visible, and hence, that truncates the "top" of the page (which is at the bottom). Looked at the PDFs in my downloads, and they appear to be ok.

After that set of pages, things are ok again. I _think_ everything is there, but haven't done a 1:1 check with the PDF.

I received a reply last night from CS. They're going to add a new copy to my next order...which ships in late October.

When I noticed Nyambe in the OGL section 15 (yes, I read that), I had high hopes that Paizo might put the open source Wakyambi elves in the Mwambi Expanse. Call me crazy, but I really like those crazy prehensile-tailed people.

I don't think those elves will ever exist except in MY Mwambi, but it's good to see the Pathfinder APs go further afield in OGL stuff than Tome of Horrors. Thanks!